TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolfreys,Julian
AU  - Alderson,David
AU  - Altieri,Charles
AU  - Baker,William
AU  - Becker-Leckrone,Megan
AU  - Cornis-Pope,Marcel
AU  - Currie,Mark
AU  - Donadey,Anne
AU  - Eklund,Christopher
AU  - Flesch,William
AU  - Flint,Kate
AU  - Graef,Ortwin de
AU  - Hsing Wu,Yun
AU  - Kucich,John
AU  - Lane,Jeremy
AU  - Lesjak,Carolyn
AU  - Luz Montes,Amelia Maria de la
AU  - Mason Vaughan,Virginia
AU  - Miller,Toby
AU  - Nies,Betsy
AU  - Robbins,Ruth
AU  - Rousselot,Elodie
AU  - Salusinszky,Imre
AU  - Schueller,Malini Johar
AU  - Tolan,Fiona
AU  - Van Leer,David
AU  - Wolfreys,Julian
AU  - Womack,Kenneth
TI  - Modern North American Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide 
SN  - 9780748624515
AV  - PN99.N7 M63 2006eb
U1  - 801.95097 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Criticism
KW  - North America
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Charles Sanders Peirce and Semiotics --; 2. The New Criticism --; 3. The Chicago School --; 4. Northrop Frye --; 5. The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism --; 6. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Norman Holland, Stanley Fish and David Bleich --; 7. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, Paul de Man --; 8. Deconstruction in America --; 9. Fredric Jameson and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism --; 10. Edward W. Said --; 11. American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism --; 12. Feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies --; 13. Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism --; 14. Feminists of Colour --; 15. Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism --; 16. Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory --; 17. Postcolonial Studies --; 18. Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism --; 19. African-American Studies --; 20. Chicano/a Literature --; 21. Film Studies --; 22. Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory --; 23. Ethical Criticism --; 24. Postmodernism --; 25. The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate --; 26. Whiteness Studies --; 27. Masculinity and Cultural Studies --; 28. Comics Studies --; 29. Anglophone Canadian Literary Studies --; 30. Francophone Canadian Literature --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Modern North American Criticism and Theory presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first. Focusing on the growth and expansion of critical trends and methodologies, with particular essays addressing key figures in their historical and cultural contexts, the book offers a narrative of change, transformation, and the continuous quest for and affirmation of multiple cultural voices and identities. From semiotics and the New Criticism to the identity politics of whiteness studies and the cultural study of masculinity, this book provides an overview of literary and cultural study in North America as a history of questioning, debate, and exploration.A further reading list accompanies each chapter.Key Features:Breadth of coverage from Northrop Frye to Fredric Jameson and from The New Criticism and the Chicago School to New Historicism, African-American Studies and Canadian Literary Studies.Focus on the history of modern criticism.Accessibly written.Theoretical debates are set in full historical, cultural and philosophical contexts
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748626786
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748626786
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748626786/original
ER  -